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From the Lab to the Trenches
Author(s)

Poh-Gek Forkert

Publisher

Between The Lines

Publication Year

2017

ISBN: 9781771133241-01

Categories:

  • Sociology & Anthropology → Activism & Social Movements → Canada
  • Indigenous Studies → Environment
  • Law → Environmental
  • Environmental Studies → Justice
  • Political Science → Political Activism
  • Environmental Studies → Pollution

 
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From the Lab to the Trenches

From: Fighting Dirty

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The author talks about how he came to join the fight between a small but determined group of rural folks and the biggest garbage company in the world, which happened when he agreed to work as a toxicology consultant for the project’s opponents and their lawyer.

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Poh-Gek Forkert

Poh-Gek Forkert is a research scientist and toxicologist and has published more than eighty papers and book chapters on the metabolism of toxic chemicals. She has worked with environmental lawyers and citizen groups, and testified at hearings of the Environmental Review Tribunal, most recently at the Paris Pit case. She is professor emerita at Queen's University.

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Canada Council for the Arts
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Nova Scotia

This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada. Ce projet est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada.

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